As he enjoys a dream start to his Cardiff career, Slade’s first two team line-ups have seen just one change between them, Fabio coming in for Joe Ralls for the victory over Ipswich – and that simply down to the fact the Brazilian had recovered from injury.

If Slade has done anything dramatic at the club, it has been to instigate a revolution in simplicity.

The new man’s ‘meat and potatoes’ approach to management has not been about adding things, more about taking things away, and his influence at Cardiff is not so much a back-to-basics approach, but more a back-to-reality one.

Of course, to make out Slade simply had to arrive at the Bluebirds, reel in the whimsical longueurs of Solskjaer, open his ‘Championship Management for Dummies’ book and takes things from there does him a great disservice.

Slade’s near-instant accomplishment of making things look very simple is naturally a rather complicated process.

The whole squad had to feel loved, then the right players made to feel even more loved, whilst the rest not as unloved as they are.

The ‘who the hell is this guy from Orient telling me what to do?’ vibe had to be nipped in the bud and, if not the passion in the shirt itself, then the expression of that passion had to be reimposed.

All that before any tactical stuff or on-pitch philosophy could be implemented at all.

So, thanks to this brave new world of practicality, barring injury or other factors, the Cardiff side which travels to The Den should be identical to the one which earned that excellent victory over Ipswich in midweek.

Unlike his predecessor, Slade seems like a man who has very much embraced the dictum ‘never change a winning side’.

But, if the complications are at a minimum right now, the new Cardiff boss does have decisions to make in the near future. Rather big ones.

The most obvious of these is at centre-half. One of the first things Slade has done at Cardiff is to tighten up the Bluebirds’ defence. What had looked like a back-line ready to warp or collapse at any moment now looks disciplined and regimented.

Essentially, it now looks like what it is, a decent Championship defence. The idea of messing with it seems perverse right now, but that is the conundrum about to face Slade.

The 26-year-old found himself incredibly unlucky at the start of this season, picking up an ankle injury in a friendly that required surgery and which has ruled him out of action completely until now.

Turner, of course, is a man who has divided opinion at Cardiff.

Ben Turner on his return from injury:

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His commitment and passion have never been questioned, but his lack of finesse with the ball has raised eyebrows at times. But it is hard to shake off the feeling that Turner just feels like a Slade-type of player.

The Cardiff manager has spoken widely already about commitment, about having pride in the shirt, and has mentioned his desire to have ‘four or five leaders’ out on the pitch. Ring any bells?

With Bruno Manga having established himself as a monstrous and immovable presence in the heart of that Cardiff back-line, then it seems the battle will be between Turner and Sean Morrison for the other centre-half spot.

Morrison, too, is a player who still has question marks hanging over him since his move from Reading to the Welsh capital this summer.

He is yet to fully win the Bluebirds’ fan-base over, with many failing to see what he brings to the game.

His form was patchy early on, but recently the 23-year-old seems to have grown into the role and in Slade’s first two games in charge in particular, Morrison has looked vastly improved.

A role too for Matt Connolly might yet be found as he returns from injury after a great start to the campaign under the previous regime, while the mystery surrounding defensive midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi is surely closer to being solved after his run-out for the development side this week too.

Right now though, those are questions for the future, with Slade set to turn to the usual suspects as he sets out to prove that what he can do in the Welsh capital he can also do on the road. After that strange start to the Championship campaign under Solskjaer, many are starting to believe the Bluebirds can, under their new boss, live up to the pre-season hype.

There is little doubt they will travel to Millwall brimming with confidence to face a side under Ian Holloway with just one win in its last 11 league outings.

The Cardiff promotion push is starting to look the real deal, and three wins out of three would see those who had doubts about the new regime further silenced.